Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
GENERAL INFORMATION The aim of the Murdock Academy is to train for citizenship by preparing young people to found homes in which a coming generation may begin life under more favorable conditions and by training the rising generation for useful...
CHAPTER FIVE
SOCIAL LIFE IN PIONEER DAYS
HOME DRAMATICS IN BEAVER
One of the first dramatic companies in Beaver was managed and sponsored by Robert Stoney and Henry Blackner. Jenny Harris and Sarah Ann Stoney, both talented and lovely young women,...
These are some horses in Royal Swasey's (Joe's son) farm. The Swaseys rounded up the wild horses, bred them with their own, and made a living by selling them in the nearby towns. Joe's children became part of his business. Joe's grandson, Monte...
The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking them and selling them. The tradition continued into the next generation. These are some wild horses broken by the Swaseys....
The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking the wild ones and selling them. The tradition continued into the next generation. The Swaseys were not the only ones to...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Joe
Joe Swasey is the youngest of the Swasey Brothers who ran horses and cattle on the San Rafael in the 1870s and into the next generation as well. The Swasey Brothers adventures and stories are as embedded in the San Rafael Swell as the fossils. They...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Joe; Swasey, Mary Etta McDonald
Joe Swasey was the youngest brother of the Swasey boys. He married Mary Etta McDonald in 1887. The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking the wild ones and selling...
Feb. 5 , 1953 ... The new garbage site south of town is located about 3; to 4 miles from town--on Kenneth Middleton B.L.M. Grazing Lease. Feb. 1 9 . 1 9 5 3 . . .Ralph Thomas, Manager of the Southern Utah Power Company. Warren Bulloch. President of...
information that cars must park 12" back from curb. 2 . They want a red zone in front of the theatres designated a s a loading zone when theatres are not in use. 3 . They want to know why the parking area back of Thornton Drug is not leveled off...
to for a generation. On the 4th of J a n u q President Cleveland signed the proclamation, admitting the people to statehood. The Enabling Act had been signed on the 7th of July 1894. Thus a period of a year and a haif had elapsed, during which the...
carne safe to hand on Christmas day and was read with much pleasure. We were al very glad to hear of your l improved health and of Aunt Ellen's. 1 sent the SemiWeekly of Oct. lGth to Mrs. John Lunt, and whenever 1 can do anything for you 1 am...
this far off land of Mexico and separated from so many of our family that we so dearly love, which are separated f?om [us] by such a long distance. But, this life is short at the longest and the generation to which 1 belong wiii soon al1 be passed...
Ann became very much a part of the music life of the community. She sang in the first presentation of the Messiah in Cedar City and participated in operas and choirs for many years." When Bert died, she moved in with the family from the old Seaman...
read - "The good that men do lives after them and influences the lives of generations yet unknown." In that, it seems to me there is a lot of eucouragement for this generation to live wisely and decently. There is something in that thought to...
away, people would sometimes send for the prearhcr and ask him for whom the hell tolled, and the preacher would say to them that the bell tolled for everyone. "No man is an i l a n d entire to itself", he said, "every man is a piece of the...
felt that strongly because he showed it in his own life by helping his fellow men. Now, such a religion as I have pictured, Brother Jones felt within him. 'This religion not only recognizes the human personality as divine, hut as eternal. Not only...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
apologies for my religious affiliations, but 1 do wish that my Bishop could hear of these charges. I am neither a reformer nor a crusader, but if it is old-fashioned or religious fanaticism to believe that...